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A Handful of Soil
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 29 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He flew to Ukraine to collect a dead man's money - and instead found a sealed door that hadn't been opened in a thousand years.
The air in the catacombs doesn't move. Candle flames stand perfectly still. Somewhere beneath the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, behind walls older than memory, something has been waiting. Silently. Patiently. For exactly this kind of man.
Tony is a Chicago engineer who measures everything in dollars. His estranged grandfather's death should have been simple: fly to Ukraine, collect a handful of earth, place it on the old man's grave, claim a few million dollars. Clean. Efficient. Done. But a crumbling map found in a monastery archive changes everything. It points to the untouched tomb of Saint Antony - sealed for ten centuries. Tony doesn't see a sacred site. He sees a vault.
He allies with brutal local businessmen who operate outside every law. His only obstacle is Vera - a monastery guide with ancient eyes and a warning he refuses to hear: the tomb was sealed not to protect the treasure inside, but to contain what guards it.
The Bargain: The mobsters need Tony to breach the catacombs. Tony needs their money and muscle. Neither trusts the other with their life - which means both of them are already expendable.
The Warning: Vera knows what lies inside. She has read the ancient manuscripts. Every person who came before Tony with greed in their hands left the catacombs - but not as themselves.
The Test: Tony believes he is hunting for gold buried in the dark. The monastery has already decided what it is hunting for - and it found him the moment he walked through its gates.
A thousand years of silence is about to end. What Tony discovers in that tomb will cost him everything he thought he was - and the only question left is whether any of it was worth the price of his soul.
The door is already open. Will you follow him in?
Descend the dark.
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